The EEOC has announced that Shopper’s Vineyard, a wine and liquor store in Clifton, New Jersey will pay $60,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the EEOC. The EEOC alleged the store laid off the only African American front-line...
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March 31, 2009
The EEOC has announced that YRC Inc., the largest over-the-road trucking company in the U.S., and the EEOC announced an agreement providing for an expanded recruitment program that is expected to increase the diversity of YRC’s truck driving and...
The EEOC has announced that Advance Stores Company, Inc., d/b/a as Advance Auto Parts, will pay $50,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by EEOC in which the agency alleged the company refused to hire an applicant because of his...
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that it will make available to employers nationwide a free database of 1,921 job candidates with disabilities seeking employment in a wide variety of fields. The Workforce Recruitment Program for College...
Former DOL Secretary Elaine Chao has returned to The Heritage Foundation as a Distinguished Fellow, according to a foundation press release. She will concentrate on international policy issues as well as labor policy.
March 31, 2009
DOL Secretary Hilda Solis has issued a news release on a COBRA subsidy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). ARRA provides a 65 percent tax subsidy for the cost of health benefits for the unemployed for up to nine months,...
March 06, 2009
by Eric Dunleavy, Sul-Kee Kim, David Morgan & Keli Wilson, DCI Consulting Group
DCI staff attended the Washington Metro Industry Liaison Group (WMILG) meeting at U.S. Foodservice’s Manassas facility on February 19, 2009. The meeting was organized...
The Institute for Workplace Equality a nonprofit employer association based in Washington DC, was quoted in a special article published in BNA Daily Labor Report® (subscription required) featuring the outlook for OFCCP in 2009. A summary of these...
March 02, 2009
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that President Obama appointed Stuart Ishimaru as Acting Chairman and Christine Griffin as Acting Vice Chair of the commission. Ishimaru succeeds Naomi C. Earp, whose term as...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Pitt Ohio, an interstate trucking firm, had agreed to pay $2.43 million to a class of women to settle a class action lawsuit. The EEOC alleged the company denied a class of...
March 02, 2009
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC will pay more than $75,000 to resolve a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit that alleged the company permitted a co-worker at an Iowa drywall...
